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Brendan Cooper is a social media consultant and copywriter who has helped clients win business and awards for over 15 years.

Whither Social Mention?

by on September 7, 2011 in RSS, technology, cloudcomputing, monitoring, socialmedia, search, reputationmanagement

Social Mention is a pretty good social media aggregator. Think Google, but for social media. When I say ‘pretty good’, I mean it’s not without its faults. It doesn’t do real phrasal searches – that is, a search for “Brendan Cooper” in quotes will give results with just “Brendan” and “Cooper” in them, which is [...]

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Netvibes and me just don’t get along any more

by on April 19, 2011 in monitoring

I’ll be straight up: I like Netvibes. I’ve used it a lot in the past because I think it’s such a great solution to the problem of monitoring across the social mediascape. So it’s hurting me pretty badly now that it doesn’t work for me any more. That is, just me. As in, me personally. It’s [...]

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Brendan Cooper is a social media consultant and copywriter who has helped clients win business and awards for over 15 years.

If you want to understand social media, do it when there’s a big TV event happening

by on February 14, 2011 in measurement, technology, monitoring, visualisation, socialmedia, research, trends, search, Twitter, reputationmanagement

We’re living in a strange world right now. We’re sort of at a tipping point between broadcast and broadcomment, where we can watch what millions of other people are watching, while at the same time see what they’re saying. This was brought home to me during the Prime Ministerial debates in the UK. I watched [...]

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The UK Election Social Media Dashboard: What I learned

by on May 7, 2010 in monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology, Twitter, visualisation

Estimated reading time: 1.5 minutes So the dust is still settling – hasn’t actually settled yet because we have a hung parliament so all the politicians will be running around with their knees bent, flapping their arms and clucking and pecking at each other relentlessly until one of them, with a gigantic squawk, lays a [...]

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Everything does something, but nothing does everything

by on May 5, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to monitor, capture, measure and report. The good news is that there are ways of doing all of these. The bad news? None of them do it all. Here’s the current state of play: Google Reader is really good for monitoring and going back through old posts, [...]

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It’s never been easier to engage, so if people don’t…

by on April 14, 2010 in cloudcomputing, measurement, monitoring, socialmedia, socialnews, socialvideo, technology, trends, Twitter, visualisation

… then we’re all going to hell in a hand cart. Probably. A bit. Sounds a bit alarmist I know, but here’s my take on this. In the past, I’ve been fairly lackadaisical about politics. I thought I had left-wing leanings when I was younger but then who doesn’t/didn’t? At least I wasn’t a hippy [...]

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What are people saying about… Bono?

by on January 4, 2010 in cloudcomputing, monitoring, reputationmanagement, research, RSS, socialmedia, technology, visualisation

Last week I looked at how Eurostar were faring, by putting together a dashboard in Netvibes which is powered by my social media search engine in the background. The results were interesting: we could see how the anger spread quickly through social media channels – and now, you can see how it’s waned quickly. No [...]

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What are people saying about… Eurostar?

by on December 23, 2009 in blogs, cloudcomputing, microblogging, monitoring, socialmedia, Twitter

Eurostar is to rail travel what Terminal 5 was to air travel. While Terminal 5 was slowly falling apart, I had the opportunity to put together my first ever monitoring dashboard for people who wanted to track what was going on. Since then I’ve played around a-plenty with dashboards and monitoring systems, so while I [...]

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If it’s easy, it’s probably wrong

by on December 10, 2009 in cloudcomputing, computing, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia, technology

Owing to a bit of downtime – clients disappearing instead of continuing projects, yes I agree, it’s very rude isn’t it – I’ve been fighting with Yahoo Pipes and Netvibes to try and get some sort of effective monitoring solution together. In theory it’s pretty simple. Yahoo Pipes lets you do all sorts of fancy [...]

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